We are taught today that the word regulated means controlled by legal process. Well, even today, that is not the only meaning. For example, in engineering it means “to an exact tolerance of measurement.” What has to be looked at was, what did it mean 250 years ago? In those times, it meant “in good working order with the best available materials and operation.” Hence, the best clocks were known as regulators, the best technology and the best-maintained clocks.

What that means is that our forefathers understood that arms were changing and that the militia must always have the newest technology, and it must be maintained.

I’ll leave militia to the reader to look up, it’s an easier word and is well defined by other laws and court cases.

Dennis Casto

Durango